Disappointed that they weren't backdated.
By backdated, do you mean correct dates for the commits?
I'll add that in one of the subsequent commits: both corrected dates and authors.
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#12I look forward to the day when constitutional amendments are pull requests.
Absolutely! It would be a dream come true if Indian law-makers start doing things in the public, allowing public to comment/vet their ideas/thoughts/plans on upcoming legislations.
I'm not sure if you're aware: currently the farmers in India's capital are protesting against the farm acts the Govt. introduced. The acts are supposed to do good to the farmers, but since they did not involve them, there is a lot of misinformation and protest.
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#13Shouldn‘t it be one commit if they were amended? /s
An amendment in the Indian Constitution is an act/law/bill in itself. It does modify the core document (the constitution) but it has an independent existence.
In that sense, one could argue that every "amendment" is a bugfix, feature-request of sorts.
Debatable both ways.
I personally like the idea of independent commits better as the "git browse" UIs handle individual commits better.
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#14This is very cool. Diff for 42nd Ammendment which was used to impose emergency https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...
Especially look at the restrictions on courts!
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#15Great effort! I wish the files were named as Part01.txt, Part02.txt and so on to suit the default string sorting used by GitHub. The list on GitHub has Part1.txt, Part10.txt...Part19.txt, Part2.txt, and so on, which makes it a bit cumbersome to browse on that site.
Yeah, now that you pointed out, it does look ugly. I created an issue: https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/i... to track this one.
I anyway plan to rewrite all commits with corrected time and author info; will be a good time to rename files as well.
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#16Here is a repo for Hungarian laws: https://github.com/badicsalex/torvenyek
The dates are accurate.
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#17This is very cool. Diff for 42nd Ammendment which was used to impose emergency https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...
Especially look at the restrictions on courts!
I did Ctrl+F for "speech" and "press" and did not find anything in https://github.com/prince-mishra/the-constitution-of-india/c...
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#18I would like to file a pull request, remove socialism and reinstate our original freedom of speech. Unrealistic, but one can dream.
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#19Shouldn‘t it be one commit if they were amended? /s
An amendment in the Indian Constitution is an act/law/bill in itself. It does modify the core document (the constitution) but it has an independent existence. In that sense, one could argue that every "amendment" is a bugfix, feature-request of sorts. Debatable both ways. I personally like the idea of independent commits better as the "git browse" UIs handle individual commits better.
It’s a joke about git commit --amend.
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#20I look forward to the day when constitutional amendments are pull requests.
Not just constitutional amendments, legal documents of all kinds would benefit from standard formatting and version control.
One difficult challenge is that text-line based diffs don't work well for free-form text documents. Line length, line breaks, paragraph breaks, list formatting, etc. are very ad-hoc in most legal documents.